By our Taraba correspondent
In line with its mandate to provide basic infrastructure, as well as alleviate the plight of persons who reside in border across the country, the Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA) has handed over projects worth millions of naira to some border communities in Taraba State, in order to improve the lives of natives and dwellers.
Some of the communities include Dampar, Baissa, Bissula, Zing and are spread throughout the state.
The interventions include more than 20 lock-up stores, solar-powered boreholes, over-head tanks, modern toilet facilities, amongst others. Quick News Africa understands that the projects have been under construction for some time and were only handed over to the communities recently.
Speaking at the hand-over ceremony, the Executive Secretary, BCDA, Captain Junaid Abdullahi, commended the state government and other stakeholders who made the projects a success.
Represented by an Assistant Director from the agency, Sadiq Abdullahi, Junaid assured the communities of the determination of the agency to embark on more meaningful projects in all the border communities spread across the state.
Junaid went ahead to urge the communities to expect more interventions but emphasised that, in order to do so, jealously guard the ones which have been completed from being vandalised.
The Commissioner for Boundaries Isa Zaku said the agency decided to provide an ultra-modern market, in order to boost economic activities of the people.
Overwhelmed by the gesture, the monarch of the council, Alhaji Salihu Ababukar Danbwaro, lauded the efforts of the agency for providing the lock-up shops and assured that they will be used for appropriately and optimally.
Since 2006, the agency, it would be recalled, has been saddled with the responsibility of making life more comfortable for communities on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Benin Republic.
